U.S. District Court Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. dismissed Madison County's lawsuit seeking to extend qualifying deadlines for candidates to June 1. I don't have time to write a full analysis but it appears the court said Madison lacked standing, there was no actual injury, and any discussion of making candidates run under new plans with the old qualifying dates were thus moot. It appears Madison County candidates will thus run under the current lines for the 2011 election. The ruling is posted below.
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This means Tim Johnson, Rudy Warnock and Gerald Steen all go down together, and maybe Madison County can be rid of these sleazeballs.
I would like to add Karl Banks list of sleazeballs too.
@ Micah: Agree
Nah--we won't be rid of them. We'll elect some more just like 'em. Sad but true.
8:48 I don't agree. The more people pay attention the better it can get. Just look at Rankin County. It was a cesspool over there until they threw all their county supervisors out of office and started paying attention. Madison County is getting there.
8:54--You do remember that this current bunch presented themselves as reform candidates when they were elected? I wish that you were right, but the voters in Madison Co. are the people P.T. Barnum had in mind in that famous quotation, at least when it comes to politics. They are very easily duped.
Unfortunately, all of us pay the price for our fellow citizens' inattention to the political realities of our county. Hide and watch. Four years will pass and we'll have new supes, but no change.
And Rankin County is still a cesspool. They've just learned to be more discreet.
not so fast. if DOJ preclears before June 2nd, better than 90% chance election will be under new lines. new plan submitted 5/27, DOJ response req'd within 60 days and highly unlikely new lines won't be approved. stay tuned.
Read the order, 10:02. The last paragraph on page 17 finishing up on page 18 makes it clear that the plan submitted to DOJ can't be used because it wasn't approved before the filing deadline. Further, the judge could have easily stated the opposite in his order if that was his intent. I'll stay tuned, but it's not likely that even Tim will risk violating an order from a federal judge. Bill Billingsley
10:02- The Justice Department knows how to read a court opinion, even if you don't. This opinion slams the door on any district lines that did not exist before March 1st.
if DOJ preclears by June 2nd, judicial relief will, without question, remedy under-represented Madison residents' 14th Amendment rights and no longer be speculative. read pages 9 and 10 more carefully. there's a reason dismissal was without prejudice.
Wrong. The prospect of DOJ relief was only raised as a standing issue. It wasn't even enough of a possibility to keep the plaintiffs in court. This opinion clearly says candidates will run under the old lines this year. The counties did not have enough time this year to enact a reapportionment plan. A board of supervisors "must have adequate time to formulate a redistricting plan and obtain preclearance from the Department of Justice," and the counties didn't have enough time. Therefore, DOJ approval is irrelevant. Old lines.
8:48 is correct. The names change but the end product remains the same. That will be the case as long as the good ole boy long time Madison Countians continue to dominate the ballots.
7:48 As a long time Madison Countian myself, I can tell you there are very few of us left. Most of the voters now are new and have moved here from somewhere else.
When I said dominate the ballots, I meant the list of names on the ballots. True that there are many new people in Madison County, however, those people aren't moving here to pursue political careers, so you end of with the lifetimers with political ambition running for everything..the Johnsons/Banks...constable/judge/
mayor of Gluckstadt etc.
When I said dominate the ballots, I meant the list of names on the ballots. True that there are many new people in Madison County, however, those people aren't moving here to pursue political careers, so you end of with the lifetimers with political ambition running for everything..the Johnsons/Banks...constable/judge/
mayor of Gluckstadt etc.
Choke on it, Tim Johnson, you dirty RINO piece of shit. His last desperate act -- to save Paul Griffin and Karl Banks -- has failed.
That piece of garbage should be horse-whipped.
In case there was some ambiguity, Tim Johnson is a disgusting human being who should be run out of the Republican Party. He's spent the last 7 years in a voting coalition with two effing Democrats.
What a scumbag. Piece of shit should die in a house fire. Criminal.
Kev, that is very crude and uncalled for. I'm not in favor of Tim Johnson in any form or fashion. But I'm disgusted by those words. He has a family, for goodness sakes!
J. Kev how do you really feel about Elvis? hahahahahahaha
Julia --
He's a rude, uncalled for piece of garbage. I don't give a damn for his family or his feelings. Every one of them can die in a fire for all I care.
He's a lying scumbag who belongs in jail. And I'll say it to his face.
J Kev also thinks that "Democrats," his code term for black people, are "the stupidest people on the planet." Possibly he wishes for them to die in house fires too.
No, Mr/Ms Anderson. "Democrats" is code for members of the Democrat Party.
The kicked dog yelps the loudest.
J. Kev, did you vote for Tim Johnson or Marc Sharpe back when Johnson and company slithered into office? Just wonderin' :-)
I'm sorry to say I voted for Tim Johnson....Never again....
"J.Kev" Broughton is a lawyer in Canton. His biggest claim to fame is filing a lawsuit in the wrong court, thus costing his client the case. "Chancery" vs. "Circuit" is an easy mistake to make UNLESS YOU'RE A LAWYER.
I am certainly not a fan of Tim Johnson! However, I think Mr. Broughton needs anger management classes or maybe counseling as a guest of our state mental hospital in Rankin County. I would think a "real attorney" would know better or at least have enough class not to voice feelings such as these in public.
J. Kev, in the Canton-vs.-Nissan thread:
The sheer gall of it still astounds me. Until I remember that the city of Canton is 90% uh, Democrat. They don't care that the Blackmons hold them in contempt; all they know is that it's "their turn" to run the City.
Because the average IQ for those uh, Democrats won't even sniff room temperature. They are at a level of stupidity that's hard to fathom. I think they're the dumbest people on the planet.
I would have to be one of the dumbest people on the planet not to find a racial slur here.
While I am no fan of Tim 'Elvis' Johnson, and also believe that he should be serving some time in jail for his actions in public office, I am not about wish for his, or his families, death(s). I do believe very strongly that he is a dips#!t and so pompass that he will hang himself given enough rope! The voters need to make sure that he is about to rap up his final year in public office . . . EVER!!! Please remember that friends shouldn't allow friends to drive drunk and they also shouldn't allow their stupid friends to vote.
http://onlinemadison.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=23636
Madison County officials say they will ignore a federal judge's order to use existing district lines in the 2011 elections and will attempt to get Justice Department approval of their controversial reapportionment plan.
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